Posted on 02/13/2008 4:02:35 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today.
The hydrocarbons rain from the sky on the miserable moon, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. This much was known. But now the stuff has been quantified using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material — it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," said Ralph Lorenz, a Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "This vast carbon inventory is an important window into the geology and climate history of Titan."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
But I thought oil was from dinosaurs and dead plants over millions of years!
Fossil fuels after all!
/sarc
Now, all we need is a wormhole between here and there to siphon off some of that black gold for our own use...
(Can I patent the idea of using a wormhole as a giant siphon?)
Can’t use it. The Saturn Caribou use Titan as their mating grounds.
I don’t understand how this makes sense if the theory of abiotic oil on the earth is lunacy. (As it were.)
Interesting. Now if we can only build massive bladders that can suck that place dry and have it remotely controlled seeing as we don’t really have the technology to protect ourselves from Saturn’s radiation.
This article was already posted as a thread and drew all the dinosaur comments anybody ever heard of.
Hey, everyone knows that the Female T-Rex’s are from Hyperion and the males are from Titan...
Yep. That’s what they say.
No blood for Titan Oil!
Titan lied, people died!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My thoughts exactly.
My thoughts exactly.
Now the evil Americans wnt to rape and ravage the entire SOlar System. [/sarcasm]
Now the evil Americans want to rape and ravage the entire SOlar System. [/sarcasm]
Now the evil Americans want to rape and ravage the entire Solar System. [/sarcasm]
Titan obviously belongs to the U.S.
Now Congress will pass a bill to make the moons of Saturn Federally protected, so that its precious resources are safe from Big Oil.
Looks sorta boring aside from the potential for trillion-dollar oil wealth.
40 years ago some New-Ager was screaming in my face that we couldn’t be allowed to go into space because we would ruin the entire universe just as we have ruined earth. Outer space must remain pristine for kayakers or somebody equally l33t.
40 years ago some New-Ager was screaming in my face that we couldn’t be allowed to go into space because we would ruin the entire universe just as we have ruined earth. Outer space must remain pristine for kayakers or somebody equally l33t.
Proxy #2
40 years ago some New-Ager was screaming in my face that we couldn’t be allowed to go into space because we would ruin the entire universe just as we have ruined earth. Outer space must remain pristine for kayakers or somebody equally l33t.
Proxy #3 This BBS is kr#pping out again.
40 years ago some New-Ager was screaming in my face that we couldn’t be allowed to go into space because we would ruin the entire universe just as we have ruined earth. Outer space must remain pristine for kayakers or somebody equally l33t.
Proxy #4
40 years ago some New-Ager was screaming in my face that we couldn’t be allowed to go into space because we would ruin the entire universe just as we have ruined earth. Outer space must remain pristine for kayakers or somebody equally l33t.
Hard to say how usefull it will be. By the time we get anywhere near being able to send tankers there to get it I doubt we’ll be using it as fuel much. We will likely find other uses for it by then though.
Hard to say how usefull it will be. By the time we get anywhere near being able to send tankers there to get it I doubt we’ll be using it as fuel much. We will likely find other uses for it by then though.
Fossil fuel theory up in smoke?
Fossil fuel theory up in smoke?
Fossil fuel theory up in smoke?
Sorry for the triple ... the dreaded 502 proxy error made me do it.
Rats!
Do you guys remember if Velikovsky predicted lots of Hydrocarbons on other planets as well as a non-life abiogenic process here on earth? It’s been a while since I read “Worlds in Collision” and something about this is rattling around upstairs.
Sorry. Don’t remember.
Ping.
It’s embarrassing to have to tell ya’ll this, but it ain’t that kind of gas.
Sorry.
I have to say that a lot...
In hindsight, “gas station” was not the best way to express things.
Future deep space natural energy resource might have been better.
Ethane and methane are not oil. The title is incorrect. They cannot be used to make gasoline or diesel.
Then I look at the incredible amounts of money being made by Dubai and companies like Exxon-Mobil by ripping us off, and it suddenly makes sense.
Thanks, that makes more sense.
Perhaps because the only commercially producing petroleum ever discovered and is flowing today is all sourced from sedimentary rock and contains biomarkers.
There have a few attempts to drill and locate abiotic oil. Those wells have only been successful in producing cash from gullible investors and a couple times gullible governments. None have resulted in oil production.
Yes. Seems like there was a lively discussion about this in a topic last year, but anyway...
Thanks FN for the ping to the similar, earlier topic:
Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
SpaceRef.com | February 13, 2008 | ESA
Posted on 02/13/2008 2:10:35 PM EST by Brian S. Fitzgerald
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969802/posts
From your link, it appears that the hydrocarbon claim was for Venus rather than an ice-cold blob like Titan.
From the link:
I offered a series of claims that naturally followed from the reconstruction. In science they are usually called predictions, but I prefer to term them advance claims. Thus I claimed that Venus, due to its recent birth and dramatic though short history, must be very hot under the clouds, nearly incandescent, and gives off heat—it has not reached thermal balance; that it must have every massive atmosphere; that the atmosphere consisted largely of hydrocarbons but that if oxygen is present petroleum fires must be burning—thus explaining also the present massive carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere; that sulfur and iron (ferruginous pigment) must be present too; and that if the same catalytic process that took place on the Earth when it was enveloped by clouds of Venus’ origin takes place in Venus’ own clouds, they must consist mainly of organic material infused with sulfur and iron molecules. Further, I considered that Venus was disturbed in its rotation.
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/happenings/20061010/
Planets, Comets, Asteroids, hydrocarbons everywhere...
From its lofty perch in space, Spitzer was in the perfect position to scrutinize the cometary material ejected from comet Tempel 1. The sensitive telescope’s spectrometer instrument detected dust particles finer than human hair, and discovered the presence of silicates (crushed rock or sand), carbonates (chalk), smectite (clay), metal sulfides (like fool’s gold), amorphous carbon (soot), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (carbon-rich molecules found on barbecue grills and in automobile exhaust on Earth).
http://www.universetoday.com/2007/07/06/spongey-hyperion-coated-with-hydrocarbons/
One of the most bizarre objects in the Solar System has got to be Saturn’s moon Hyperion. From the pictures taken by Cassini, this tiny moon looks like a sponge you might buy at the Body Shop. In a new research paper appearing in the July 5 issue of the journal Nature, scientists have mapped the surface of Hyperion, and found hydrocarbons...
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